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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The sex industry isn't technophilic; Schroedinger's streaming service just died; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/06/21/ear…

#Pluralistic 1/ Image: Come As You Are Co-...
Sponsor me for the @ClarionUCSD Write-A-Thon! I'm writing 10,000 words on my prison-tech thriller "Some Men Rob You With a Fountain Pen" and raising scholarship money for the Clarion SF/F workshop, which I graduated from in 1992.

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The sex industry isn't technophilic: Why sex workers are the first in - and first out - of new technologies.

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Schroedinger's streaming service just died: When is a "sale" a "license?"

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Hey look at this

* @Bobosphere's final broadcast bullypulpit.substack.com/p/off-the-air#…

* Platformer Toolkit, an interactive essay gmtk.itch.io/platformer-too… (h/t @waxy)

* The Hatbox Ghost that Never Was …gforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-ha… 5/ Image
#20yrsago #Perl is Internet #Yiddish web.archive.org/web/2002062116…

#20yrsago The invention of #Warchalking web.archive.org/web/2002102004…

#20yrsago Punk sounds for babies punkrockbaby.com

#15yrsago Email gets fourth amendment protection again web.archive.org/web/2007081301… 6/ Image
#15yrsago #GoldFarming makes the NYT nytimes.com/2007/06/17/mag…

#15yrsago Fix the FCC or die web.archive.org/web/2007070320…

#15yrsago North American Broadcasters Association knifes NPR and PBS at the United Nations anti-podcasting treaty negotiation web.archive.org/web/2007062603… 7/ Image
#10yrsago DMZ is finished: @brianwood nailed the ending memex.craphound.com/2012/06/21/dmz…

#10yrsago G4S boss predicts mass privatisation of UK police forces theguardian.com/uk/2012/jun/20…

#10yrsago @paolobacigalupi: cyberpunk saved sf web.archive.org/web/2014122512… 8/ Image
#10yrsago Drugs Without the Hot Air: the most sensible book about drugs you’ll read this year memex.craphound.com/2012/06/20/dru…

#10yrsago Fanfic inspired by the apocalyptic state of a ten-year-old Civilization II game reddit.com/r/gaming/comme… 9/ Image
#10yrsago How stupid is Charles Carreon’s lawsuit against The Oatmeal, IndieGoGo, the American Cancer Society and the National Wildlife Federation? Really, really stupid popehat.com/2012/06/19/the… 10/ Image
#10yrsago Oatmeal to Charles Carreon: calm down before you get yourself into trouble theoatmeal.com/blog/carreon

#10yrsago @aaronsw reviews Twilight of the Elites, an indictment of meritocracy crookedtimber.org/2012/06/18/gue… 11/ Image
#10yrsago Young man with autism sees off the Snow White ride at Walt Disney World shmoolok.com/Blog/Post/339/… 12/
#10yrsago FunnyJunk’s lawyer sues American Cancer Society and National Wildlife Federationhttps://www.popehat.com/2012/06/17/the-oatmeal-v-funnyjunk-part-iv-charles-carreon-sues-everybody/

#10yrsago Falsehoods programmers believe about time infiniteundo.com/post/253269996… 13/ Image
#5yrsago A right-wing Dem Senator who voted to sell weapons to Saudi is being primaried by an environmental activist theintercept.com/2017/06/19/joe…

#5yrsago New media noncompetes are destroying the careers of young journalists cjr.org/business_of_ne… 14/ Image
#5yrsago Every year, @Starbucks sends 4 billion nonrecyclable paper cups to landfills treehugger.com/starbucks-cups…

#5yrsago Truck-driving is a modern form of indentured slavery usatoday.com/pages/interact…

#5yrsago Canon #Jesus was way better than fandom Jesus web.archive.org/web/2017042307… 15/ Image
#5yrsago Israeli company’s spyware used to target corruption-fighting journalists and lawyers in Mexico citizenlab.ca/2017/06/reckle…

#5yrsago @sxsw condemns Texas’s state-level law banning “sanctuary cities” like Austin rollingstone.com/music/music-ne… 16/ Image
#5yrsago My Favorite Thing is Monsters: a haunting diary of a young girl as a dazzling graphic novel memex.craphound.com/2017/06/20/my-…

#5yrsago The Big Bad Fox: hilarious tale of predators, parenting, and poultry memex.craphound.com/2017/06/20/the… 17/ Image
#1yrago How to cheat on your taxes: The rich are different from you and me pluralistic.net/2021/06/20/la-…

#1yrago The doctrine of dynastic wealth: @abigaildisney on tax evasion and the American caste system pluralistic.net/2021/06/19/dyn… 18/ Image
#1yrago The gig economy's dark-money, astroturf "community groups" pluralistic.net/2021/06/19/dyn… 19/ Image
Friday's threads: Facebook's right, Apple is too powerful; and more!

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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @DarkDel:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 21/
My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

Signed copies here:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av… 22/ Image
My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

craphound.com/shop/ 23/ Image
Upcoming appearances:

* A New @hopeconf (NYC), Jul 24
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Recent appearances:

* Supp-Lie Demand (Bad Faith podcast with @briebriejoy):
patreon.com/posts/67550669

* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech
csi.asu.edu/calendar/event…

* Privacy is the New Celebrity
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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt @mcrockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 26/ Image
If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest column is "Reasonable Agreements: On the Crapification of Literary Contracts"

doctorow.medium.com/reasonable-agr… 27/
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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1… 29/
Today's top sources: @slashdot (slashdot.org), @yvessmith (nakedcapitalism.com). 30/ Image

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Nov 20
Well, this fucking *sucks*. A federal judge has decided that Meta is not a monopolist, and that its acquisitions of Instagram and Whatsapp were not an illegal bid to secure and maintain a monopoly:



1/ gizmodo.com/meta-learns-th…The classic Puck Magazine editorial cartoon entitled 'The King of All Commodities,' depicting John D Rockefeller as a man with grotesquely tiny body and a gigantic head, wearing a crown emblazoned with the names of the industrial concerns he owned. Rockefeller's head has been replaced with that of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar. The names of the industrial concerns have been replaced with the wordmarks for Scale AI, Instagram, Oculus and Whatsapp. The dollar-sign at the crown's pinnacle has been replaced with the Facebook 'f' logo. The chain around Rockefeller's neck sports the charm th...
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This is particularly galling because Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly, explicitly declared that these mergers were undertaken *to reduce competition*, which is the only circumstance in which pro-monopoly economists and lawyers say that mergers should be blocked.

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Nov 18
Gary K Wolf is the author of a fantastic 1981 novel called *Who Censored Roger Rabbit?* which Disney licensed and turned into an equally fantastic 1988 live action/animated hybrid movie called *Who Framed Roger Rabbit?*

1/ The final scene of Disneyland's 'Roger Rabbit's Toontown Spin,' in which Roger Rabbit is deploying a pair of portable holes; the holes have been replaced with copyright symbols, which are partially cropped. Image: Ken Lund (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlund/16775732643/ CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
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But despite the commercial and critical acclaim of the movie, Disney hasn't made any feature-length sequels.

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Nov 8
A blockbuster Reuters report by Jeff Horwitz analyzes leaked internal documents that reveal that: 10% of Meta's gross revenue comes from ads for fraudulent goods and scams, and; the company knows it, and; they decided not to do anything about it, because...

1/ A tuxedoed figure dramatically shoveing greenish pigs into a tube, from whose other end vomits forth a torrent of packaged goods. He has the head of Mark Zuckerberg's 'metaverse' avatar. He stands upon an endless field of gold coins. The background is the intaglioed upper face of the engraving of Benjamin Franklin on a US$100 bill, roughed up to a dark and sinister hue.
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...The fines for facilitating this life-destroying fraud are far less than the expected revenue from helping to destroy its users' lives:



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Nov 7
While I formulated the idea of enshittification to refer to digital platforms and their specific technical characteristics, economics and history, I am very excited to see other theorists extend the idea of enshittification beyond tech and into wider policy realms.

1/ A Gilded Age editorial cartoon depicting a muscular worker and a corpulent millionaire squaring off for a fight; the millionaire's head has been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of 'Enshittification,' its mouth covered in a grawlix-scrawled black bar.
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There's an easy, loose way to do this, which is using "enshittification" to refer to "things generally getting worse." To be clear, I am *fine* with this:



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Oct 29
Amazon made $35b profit last year. They're celebrating by firing 14k workers (a number they say will rise to 30k). It's the kind of thing Wall St loves. It comes after a string of pronouncements from Andy Jassy about how AI is going to let him fire *tons* of workers.

1/ A black and white image of an armed overseer supervising several chain-gang prisoners in stripes doing forced labor. The overseer's head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The prisoners' heads have been replaced with hackers' hoodies. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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That's the AI story, after all. It's not about making workers more productive or creative.

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Oct 11
I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a climate activist. I used to be - I even used to ring strangers' doorbells on behalf of Greenpeace.

1/ A field of utility scale solar. Behind the mountains on the horizon line loom two logos: the original EFF 'clenched fist and lightning bolt' logo and the first Earth Day logo. They are reflected in the solar panels. Behind them roils hellish red-shot smoke.
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But a quarter of a century ago, I fell in with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and became a lifelong digital rights activist, and switched to cheering on environmental activists from the sidelines of their fight:



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